Quakers were like Puritans stormtroopers and we sort of quite like Quakers. I have a little bit grudging kind of respect though for this anti-decadent movement that we've got. The other thing to say about Christmas is that, you know, the modern Christmas was more or less recreated by Dickens. There is a kind of moral center that all of this carnivalesque pleasure seeking doesn't have that same moral center unless that center is pleasure.
UnHerd's Freddie Sayers and Flo Read sit down with founder of The Idler magazine, Tom Hodgkinson, to discuss the fraught history of the winter festival and the moral good in having a merry Christmas.
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